#telling the truth

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. ↗

— Michael Musto

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I believe in telling the truth. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. ↗

— Joe Biden

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In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. ↗

— Fred Ward

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Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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